\o/ Great to see this come through. Shumway was already using this but needed chrome privilege to do so. It's nice to open it up.
--Jet On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Summary: We currently disallow programmatic copying and cutting from JS for > Web content, which has relied on web sites to rely on Flash in order to > copy content to the clipboard. We are planning to relax this restriction > to allow this when execCommand is called in response to a user event. This > restriction mimics what we do for other APIs, such as FullScreen. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1012662 > > Link to standard: This is unfortunately not specified very precisely. > There is a rough spec here: < > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html#miscellaneous-commands > > > and the handling of clipboard events is specified here: < > https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/>. Sadly, the editing spec is not > actively edited. We will strive for cross browser interoperability, of > course. > > Platform coverage: All platforms. > > Target release: Firefox 40. > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: This won't be hidden > behind a preference, as the code changes required are not big, and can be > easily reverted. > > DevTools bug: N/A > > Do other browser engines implement this: IE 10 and Chrome 43 both implement > this. Opera has adopted this from Blink as of version 29. > > Security & Privacy Concerns: We have discussed this rather extensively > before: <http://bit.ly/1zynBg7>, and have decided that restricting these > functions to only work in response to user events is enough to prevent > abuse here. Note that we are not going to enable the "paste" command which > would give applications access to the contents of the clipboard. > > Web designer / developer use-cases: This feature has been rather popular > among web sites. Sites such as Github currently use Flash in order to > allow people to copy text to the clipboard by clicking a button in their > UI. > > Cheers, > -- > Ehsan > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
